Schwabenspiegel

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The Schwabenspiegel is a legal code, written in ca. 1275 by a Franciscan friar in Augsburg. It deals mainly with questions of land ownership and fiefdom, and it is based on the Pentateuch, Roman law as well as Canon law.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}} Written in Middle High German,{{cite journal |last=Blind |first=Karl |author-link=Karl Blind |title=Swiss and French Election Methods |journal=The North American Review |date=1892 |volume=155 |issue=432 |page=576 |jstor=25102476 |issn=0029-2397}} it draws on the early 13th century Sachsenspiegel, and is immediately dependent on the {{ill|Deutschenspiegel|de}} code.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}

The name "mirror of the Swabians" is also taken from the Sachsenspiegel ("mirror of the Saxons"), both metaphorically compared to a mirror in which to perceive right and wrong. Since the code is not prescriptive but descriptive, i.e. it records current legal practice, it does not impose any new laws.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}

Whereas the Sachsenspiegel recalled Jews as not bearing arms due to their mentioning in the King's peace, the Schwabenspiegel says it was because they do not bear arms that they were mentioned in the peace.{{cite book |last=Arkel |first=Dik van |title=The Drawing of the Mark of Cain |date=2009 |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |location=Amsterdam |isbn=978-90-8964-041-3 |page=360 |chapter=Early Medieval France and Germany up to 1096|jstor=j.ctt46mt4q.14}}